Why History?

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Keith Jenkins

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An introduction to the issue of history and ethics. Designed to provoke discussion, the book asks whether a knowledge and understanding of the past is a good thing to have and if so, why. In the context of postmodern times, the text suggests that the goal of "learning lessons from the past" is actually learning lessons from stories written by historians and others. If the past as history has no foundation, can anything ethical be gained from history? This text seeks to present liberating challenges to history and ethics, proposing that we have reached an emancipatory moment which is well beyond the "end of history".

Author Biography:

Keith Jenkins is Reader in History at University College Chichester and author of Rethinking History (1991), On ‘What is History?’ From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White (1995) and The Postmodern History Reader (1997).

Release date NZ

September 9th, 1999

Author

Keith Jenkins

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

248

Dimensions

138x216x19

ISBN-13

9780415164160

Product ID

1679066

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